182: Getting Back to Your New Normal

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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How to navigate your first normal summer in two years. Have you been sober a while but haven't actually told anyone? Do you find summer and drinking outside triggering? Chip and Veronica discuss how to navigate a new normal in sobriety.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.1	that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning That you might be a treasure
0:21.8	I could touch but never hold
0:25.6	Hello there, this is Veronica Valley
0:29.9	And this is Chip Summers
0:31.5	And welcome back to the Sober Fool podcast
0:34.1	Glad you're back, you're still alive then
0:36.0	Yes, just to scrape through. It was
0:38.5	touch and go for many weeks, but I've managed to scrape through, yes, and have been on
0:44.3	holidays subsequently and lint my way around the north of the country.
0:48.5	Was it Northumberland you went to? Northumberland, yeah, up near the Scottish border,
0:53.3	and it was absolutely fantastic,
0:55.0	had glorious weather. And it was good to be alive. Yeah, lovely. Really lovely.
1:00.8	Yeah. I don't think I've ever been to know. I don't really know. No, I've never been before.
1:04.7	But it was very nice. Very, very nice. I am shockingly, what's the word, under-travelled for the UK, for such a small country and someone who lived there like more than half their life. So I have a book signing in Dublin, Dublin people. I have a book signing in Dublin. I think it's the 14th of July. It's at the Virgin Mary pub. I've never been to Ireland. In Ireland, the Virgin Mary
1:28.8	Pub. It couldn't possibly be anything else. No, right? But I've never been to Ireland before.
1:33.4	And when I tell, no, when I tell Americans that, they're staggered. Like every American I've ever met has
1:38.9	been to Ireland. One of the first jobs I ever had was in a bar in a place called To Hiller Cove near Cork. And yeah, that was good. I'd love it on there. Saw all the Irish show bands. It was very good. They were great. You don't see them any longer, I don't think. But the Irish show bands were fantastic in their day. Well, I'm going to be there for 48 hours, and we're going to do this little event at
2:02.9	the Virgin Mary.
2:04.0	Well, you'll see the inside of the hotel and the bar, probably.
2:07.8	I am hoping to do a quick whistle stop tour of Dublin.
2:11.4	So anyone from Dublin, email me or message me, what is the one thing I must do or must see while I'm in Dublin?
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